FICTION, ITS TYPES, ITS ELEMENTS, AND GENRE.
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- A series of imagined facts which illustrates truths about human life.
- Does not require the presentation of actual people and situations, but characters and incidents may be based on actual people and real life events.
- A principal type of fiction that is brief, artistic form of prose fiction which enters on a single main incident and intends to produce a single dominant impression.
- Economy, compression, and emphasis characterizes what?
- It is a principle type of fiction that is an extensive prose narrative, a book length story written in prose usually compromising 75,000 to 100,000 words. Because of its length, the novel can develop more characters, a more complicated plot, elaborate more settings, and more themes.
- ENUMERATE THE 13 GENRES OF FICTION:
- Falls under the genre of fiction, it is a brief story that offers some pointed statements of truth or explicitly states a moral.
- The characters in this genre of fiction are anthropomorphized animal or natural forces, or animals or natural forces with human traits or characteristics.
- A genre of fiction that has a brief narrative with a realistic plot. It implicitly teaches a moral.
- A genre of fiction that contains strange and wonderful events without detailed characterization - the ones you read in fairy tales. It is also known as "yarn" which aims to reveal the marvelous rather than the character.
- A genre of fiction that has a narrative which focuses on adventurous and daring actions. It is usually set in remote time and place with a dashing hero who saves a beautiful maiden in distress. It often views life as optimistic and idealistic; thus it prefers a happy ending.
- The characters in this genre of fiction are ordinary men and women, like the people we encounter on a daily basis - those with real issues realistically dealt with.
- This genre of fiction is also called extreme or ultra realism. Characters are portrayed as having little or no free will.
- It is detailed reconstruction of life in another time perhaps in another place. It is a genre of fiction that recaptures the spirit and atmosphere of an age or era in the past.
- This genre of fiction transfers its setting from the outside world to the mind and inner life of a character.
- A genre of fiction that deals with futuristic concepts such as new world settings, futuristic science and technology, space and time travel, intergalactic warfare, extraterrestrial life, alien abduction and parallel universe.
- A genre of fiction that have stories of supernatural or magic elements which are classified under the genre of fantasy and even horror.
- A genre of fiction also known as reconstructed biography, it is a novel based on the true story of real people and real life events.
- A genre of fiction that is an early form of fiction told in epistles or letters. Usually contain letters by only one character, but at times can also contain letters by several characters in the book.
- A genre of fiction that has a german term for a "novel of growth or development". It is a novel in which a youngster struggles toward maturity, seeking perhaps some consistent worldview or philosophy of life.
- ENUMERATE 7 ELEMENTS OF FICTION
- An imagined person who inhabits a story, but they may also be based on real people whom the writer uses as models. They are not limited to human beings. It is the first essential ingredient in any successful story.
- These characters require less-detailed portrayal.
- The "hero" is the good guy or leading male character who opposes the villain/ the bad guy. The leading female character is the "heroine." In most modern fiction, however, the lead character is just an ordinary human being like the rest of us.
- This character does not fit the traditional heroic mold. They are flawed characters who are more than just a good guy.
- It is an older and more neutral term than "hero" for the leading character which does not imply either the presence or the absence of outstanding virtue. Its opponent is the ANTAGONIST.
- They are also called lead characters and we think of them as more complex than the minor characters, the other figures who appear in a story.
- This character serves as a contrast to the major character to highlight the particular qualities of the latter.
- They are the stock characters or stereotypes somehow who are capable of advancing the plot, but require only the barest outlines of description.
- The other character is usually the protagonist. They have more than just one trait. They are complex and at times complicated.
- These characters do not experience basic character changes throughout the development of the story.
- These characters experience changes throughout the development of the story. They may undergo sudden changes but these are usually expected based on the events of a story.
- According to the author of The Art of Dramatic Writing, a writer must know the 3 dimensions of fictional characters. Who are they?
- THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE?
- This refers to the narrator in the story, the vantage point from where the readers observe the events of the story, or the writer's special angle of vision, the one whose perspective is told.
- It is the every stories have, it is the teller the story from whose eyes we look through as we read.
- It is a type of mediation which functions like a camera; it is the frame through which characters, events, and other important details are viewed.
- A type of mediation that refers to words that embody the story.
- In this point of view, the narrator is the participant in the action. It uses the pronoun "I" and "we". It is limited though in the sense that the reader can know only details and thought from the narrator, not from the other characters.